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...Moos' critics at the center, these efforts were not enough. Says Harry Ashmore, former editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hutchins' chief operating officer: "When Moos was elected we were in no worse financial condition than we always had been. If we're in trouble now, it's because Malcolm Moos doesn't have the prestige to maintain the dialogue...
...sleek apartment building on Chicago's Gold Coast, the doorman called the cops. The men explained they were anthropologists from the University of Chicago, anxious to study rich families. "The policeman couldn't believe it," said one of the men. "He looked first for my Encyclopaedia Britannica, then for my vacuum cleaner and then asked what was the gimmick...
Leachim's brain is packed with a fund of information that includes the contents of Compton's Encyclopaedia, Webster's New World Dictionary, a Ginn science book, a thesaurus and a Macmillan reading series. He has also been programmed with biographical information on the 29 students, including their reading levels, math scores and hobbies. As he works with the students, Leachim keeps track of their progress and changing scores, sometimes asking extra questions of the faster learners and drilling slower ones on older material. After about six months, he will have to be reprogrammed to keep...
Eliot was born in St. Louis in 1888 into a family stiff with tradition. He was raised on rectitude and duty. His books were carefully selected; the Encyclopaedia Britannica was permitted, but Tom Sawyer was not. At Harvard, Eliot took boxing lessons, fell under the influence of Irving Babbitt, a hard-minded classicist who was one of his professors, and was introduced to the poetry of Jules Laforgue...
...need a name and an explanation, you could say they were like the baby twisters that hop over the Kansas highways in the summer. The kind that come with droughts, when the soil is too dry to grip the earth. There's a name for them in the encyclopaedia, but more can be divined...